The first eleven books of the Antiquities of the Jews, with a table of the Jewish coins, weights and measuresFor Thomas and Andrews, Boston, and Isaiah Thomas, Jun., Worcester, 1809 |
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... sons there were who desired to know our history , and so exhorted me to go on with it ; and above all the rest Epaphroditus , a man who is a lover of all kind of learning , but is principally delighted with the knowledge of history ...
... sons there were who desired to know our history , and so exhorted me to go on with it ; and above all the rest Epaphroditus , a man who is a lover of all kind of learning , but is principally delighted with the knowledge of history ...
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... Son of Abra- ham ; and concerning the Arabians , which were his Pofterity . § 1. ABRAHAM now removed to Gerar of Palestine , lead- ing Sarah along with him , under the notion of his fifter , ufing the like diffimulation that he had ufed ...
... Son of Abra- ham ; and concerning the Arabians , which were his Pofterity . § 1. ABRAHAM now removed to Gerar of Palestine , lead- ing Sarah along with him , under the notion of his fifter , ufing the like diffimulation that he had ufed ...
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... son . Here is a plain error in the copies , which fay , that King David afterwards built the temple on this mount Moriah , while it was certainly no other than King Solomon who built that temple , as indeed Procopius cites it from ...
... son . Here is a plain error in the copies , which fay , that King David afterwards built the temple on this mount Moriah , while it was certainly no other than King Solomon who built that temple , as indeed Procopius cites it from ...
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... son , and her husband was on that account better Ac- Here we have the difference between flaves for life , and fervants , fuch as we now hire for a time agreed upon on both fides , and difmifs again after the time contracted for is over ...
... son , and her husband was on that account better Ac- Here we have the difference between flaves for life , and fervants , fuch as we now hire for a time agreed upon on both fides , and difmifs again after the time contracted for is over ...
Page 150
... son of Nun , of the tribe of Ephraim , and Caleb of the tribe of Judah that were afraid of the confequence , and came into the midst of them , and filled the multitude , and defired them to be of good cour age ; and neither to condemn ...
... son of Nun , of the tribe of Ephraim , and Caleb of the tribe of Judah that were afraid of the confequence , and came into the midst of them , and filled the multitude , and defired them to be of good cour age ; and neither to condemn ...
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Abfalom Abimelech Accordingly affiftance againſt Ahab alfo alſo altar Amaziah Ammonites Antiq army Babylon becauſe befides Benhadad brought caft called Canaan Canaanites caufe CHAP commanded cubits David death defired deftroyed deftruction Egypt Egyptians enemies facrifices faid fame father feaft feems felf fend fent fervants feven fhall fhewed fhould fight filver fince firft flain flew fome foon foretold ftill ftones fuch fuffer fuppofe gave hath Hebrews himſelf honour houfe houſe hundred Ifrael Ifraelites Jeroboam Jerufalem Jews Joab Jofephus Jofephus's king king's kingdom land laws Mofes moft moſt multitude obferved occafion paffed perfon perfuaded Philiftines pleaſed pofterity prefent preferve priests promifed prophet punishment reafon refolved reft reign Samaria Saul Solomon Syria tabernacle temple thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou thoufand told took tribe tribe of Judah uſe whofe wicked wife worship
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Page 15 - They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies and their order. And, that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars...
Page 24 - For of the four sons of Ham, time has not at all hurt the name of Chus; for the Ethiopians, over whom he reigned, are even at this day, both by themselves and by all men in Asia, called Chusites.
Page 375 - ... the demon, as he went out of the man, to overturn it, and thereby to let the spectators know that he had left the man...
Page 16 - For many angels" of God accompanied with women, and begat sons that proved unjust, and despisers of all that was good, on account of the confidence they had in their own strength; for the tradition is, that these men did what resembled the acts of those whom the Grecians call giants.